[kendo65]

For any unaligned, unconvinced, or open minded people who may still be reading this thread and trying to make sense of the competing claims here is a useful website that gives the current scientific position.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/

Answers to some claims made in this thread:

Positives and negatives of global warming
http://www.skepticalscience.com/glob...termediate.htm

Is there a scientific consensus on global warming?
http://www.skepticalscience.com/glob...-consensus.htm

What do the 'Climategate' hacked CRU emails tell us?
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Clim...ils-hacked.htm

Is CO2 a pollutant?
http://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-pollutant.htm

Do volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans?
http://www.skepticalscience.com/volc...termediate.htm

Solar activity & climate: is the sun causing global warming?
http://www.skepticalscience.com/sola...al-warming.htm

What does past climate change tell us about global warming?
http://www.skepticalscience.com/clim...arm-period.htm

Global cooling - Is global warming still happening?
http://www.skepticalscience.com/glob...termediate.htm

Answers to 173 questions/claims on climate
http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php